So what did you think of that ad in Friday’s Post, the one in which FOX Sports 1, which often shoved Mike Francesa to FOX Sports 2, saluted the departed Francesa as an “Original,” a “Legend” and an “Icon” followed by, “It was our honor to be your partner”?

Based on what I know about their relationship, it was a piece of classy but false advertising, perhaps a way to disarm him as a means to prevent him from further attacking FOX, though why anyone at FOX would care what Francesa says — he’s not known for truth-telling, especially about himself — collides with logic.

So FS1 let an Original, a Legend and an Icon go — without a fight. Unless FOX folks have been lying to me, FS1, as others before it, was happy to lose him. Maybe that ad was just an inside joke.

Let’s stop here to note that Francesa has been addressing the Matt Harvey “situation” as if he possesses inside knowledge beyond what he reads in the papers. He fakes such expertise — daily.

Sherman, set the Wayback Machine to the Year 2012 A.D. In a screaming fury, we find Francesa deriding Harvey as pure Mets hype, an invention to dissuade fans from thinking the Mets organization incompetent:

“And now all you hear is Harvey! Whoa! You know he struck out more guys than Nolan Ryan!? Are you gonna tell me now that Harvey’s gonna be Nolan Ryan?!!!

“See, what the Mets are trying to do now is tell you that these pitchers, who until a couple of years ago you’d never heard of, are now the reason to believe!”

Early this season, Francesa on Harvey:

“Reminds me of Seaver, no question. From Day 1, first time I met him, in Florida, the first year. I was raving about him on the air, the next day.

“I said I hadn’t met anyone like him since Tom Seaver. He’s got a cockiness and confidence about him. I remember talking to him, the day after I met him, I was whoa! You could tell; you really could tell.”

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“Icon,” eh? Accent on the second syllable.

While this is standard Francesa fraudulence — must be a warehouse stuffed with Lost Tapes — that’s not why he has lost every TV gig since his pre-Dolan MSG show.

If the mark of greatness is consistency, Francesa’s lies in his consistency to grate, his supernatural ability to be the same self-impressed, condescending, bullying, throne-pretending, truth-torturing creep every day and night, on and off the air.

Upon departing every TV entity on which he has appeared, including MSG, Ch.4, YES and FS1, there’s an internal across-the-board, good-riddance joy, executive producers to production assistants. Keith Olbermann? A distant second.

For a guy who figures — knows — he’s indispensable and treats his employers as if he’s doing them a favor, Francesa’s regularly dispensed.

The late Al McGuire said, “It’s always the third thing” when he answers the phone: Callers start with, “How you feeling?” then, some other small talk, then get to why they’re calling.

Though Francesa long ago conditioned sharper listeners, especially those who don’t rubber-stamp his opinion, to not waste their time calling — they’ll be shouted down at the first hint of dissent, then cut off as Francesa continues to bash them, pretending that his response has left them speechless — many callers feel compelled to perform the “third thing” dance:

Thus, Nos. 1 and 2 are negated by No. 3, the caller in essence saying, “I know you don’t let anyone finish a sentence, but give me a chance!”

Anyway, Francesa, Original, Legend, Icon, has big-timed himself out of another TV gig. The only thing we know for sure is that it couldn’t be his fault. He’s the guy who discovered Matt Harvey.

‘Burn a timeout’ phrase officially on fire among media

Ahh, football! Who ya like in the FanDuel-DraftKings game? Put the ball on the ground, pick up your cash! Won’t be at work, today; I have a bye. Takin’ the kids to the RedZone; we’re gonna burn some timeouts.

All right, true freshmen, let’s try to get through this together. RedZone. Say a team has third-and-8 from their opponent’s 25, but reach, oh, the 18, then try a field goal. Does that count as a RedZone possession?

If the team wants to kick a short field goal to win or tie before the clock expires, or just before the half, does it count against their RedZone TD percentage? Yes!

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Thus these enlightening stats are both omnipresent and worthless.
A few years ago, someone said a team in confusion had to “burn a timeout,” as in wasting one. Good use of “burn.” But then nearly everyone started to say it — for all timeouts!

ESPN’s Brock Huard last week provided the latest proof that nonsense has a better chance to stick than sense. Temple coach Matt Rhule, before the Owls punted to Penn State, let the first-half clock run to 3 seconds, then called time. It made strong, strategic sense.

Huard: “He’s going to burn his last timeout.”

Plenty more where they came from! Hey, don’t expect gap-integrity unless you leverage the linebacker, then high-point the ball with a back-shoulder catch. Verticality!

While NBC’s Al Michaels tried to sound slick near the end of Steelers-Patriots, no one with a bet needed to be told what was going on.

Pirates Joakim Soria and Tony Watson each earned a hold Wednesday. Soria set ’em down in order then, by the book, was pulled for Watson, who allowed three hits, a walk, two earned runs.

Phoenix Suns are adding a black uniform. Yep, total eclipse of the Suns.